Totem: Sacred Beings and Spirit Objects, START Art Fair 2017, Saatchi Gallery, London
Mehta Bell Projects investigate the spiritual connotations of the totem as an object invested in ritualistic dimensions, in their diverse exhibition ‘Totem: Sacred Beings and Spirit Objects’. The totem is traditionally an object or being that has spiritual significance to a particular society; based upon this ideology the exhibition explores the idea of the art object as a totemic emblem. The eclectic selection of artists each take a disparate approach to the notion of the sacred in their practices. For some it is the ritualistic process that imbues the work with sacramental qualities, whilst others allude more explicitly to physically totemic forms. Images courtesy of Mehta Bell Projects and Matthew Booth Read more…
